Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

United States, Writer
February 12, 1963

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. She was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018–19.

Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Dream
- Green
Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

Jacqueline Woodson

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

Jacqueline Woodson
- World
- Together
- Diversity
Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Time
- Book
Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Childhood
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Writing
I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.

Jacqueline Woodson
- People
- Family
- College
Being a Witness was too closed an experience. That's what I walked away from, not the things I believe.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Believe
- Experience

I write for whoever needs to read it.

Jacqueline Woodson
If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Help
- Question
- Passion
When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

Jacqueline Woodson
My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Mom
- Green
Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

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- World
I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.

Jacqueline Woodson